US 10,694,884 B2Granted

Extracting apparatus and extracting method

AssigneeTree Field, Inc.

InventorsKaishun Kihara, Taisuke Torizu, Nobuhiro Noake, Kazuhiro Abe

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Abstract

An extracting apparatus for extracting a beverage liquid from an extraction target includes an extraction container including a neck portion with an opening and a trunk portion and configured to store the extraction target and a liquid, a filter arranged on the opening of the neck portion and configured to restrict leakage of the extraction target, and a driving unit configured to change a posture of the extraction container from a first posture in which the neck portion is located on an upper side to a second posture in which the neck portion is located on a lower side.

Claims15

Dependent claims

An extracting apparatus for extracting a beverage liquid from an extraction target, comprising:

an extraction container configured to store the extraction target and a liquid, the extraction container including a first hole through which the beverage liquid made from the extraction target and the liquid in the extraction container passes from inside of the extraction container to outside of the extraction container and a second hole;
a first operation unit configured to perform an open/close operation of a first member which opens/closes the first hole of the extraction container;
a second operation unit configured to perform an open/close operation of a second member which opens/closes the second hole of the extraction container;
and
a posture-change unit configured to change a posture of the extraction container with the first hole closed by the first member and the second hole closed by the second member from a first posture in which the first hole is oriented upwardly in a vertical direction to a second posture in which the first hole is oriented downwardly in the vertical direction,
wherein the beverage liquid is sent from the first hole of the extraction container with the second posture,
in the second posture, the second hole is positioned above the beverage liquid in the extraction container,
the extraction container is formed such that a height that the extraction target occupies in the extraction container in the second posture is larger than in the first posture, and
in the second posture, the first hole is opened by operating the first member after the second hole is opened by operating the second member.

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An extracting method of extracting a beverage liquid from an extraction target, comprising:

a first immersion step of immersing, in a liquid in an extraction container with a first posture, the extraction target accumulated in the extraction container in a first form;
a first posture-change step of changing a posture of the extraction container from the first posture to a second posture after the first immersion step;
and
a sending step of sending the beverage liquid made from the extraction target and the liquid in the extraction container through a first hole of the extraction container from inside of the extraction container to outside of the extraction container with the second posture,
wherein the extraction container in the posture-change step is in a state that the first hole is closed by a first member and a second hole of the extraction container is closed by a second member,
in the second posture, the second hole is positioned above the beverage liquid in the extraction container,
in the sending step, the first hole is opened by operating the first member after the second hole is opened by operating the second member,
the extraction target is accumulated in a second form in the extraction container with the second posture,
the second form is a form in which a height that the extraction target occupies in the extraction container is larger than in the first form, and
in the sending step, the beverage liquid which passes through the extraction target accumulated in the second form is sent to outside of the extraction container through the first hole.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/924,630Filed 19 Mar 2018 · continuation
Priority: 7 Aug 2017
Published: US 2019/0038064 A17 Feb 2019
Granted: 30 Jun 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

A47J 31/16
Apparatus for making beverages: inverting coffee-making apparatus in which water is boiled in the lower part and the apparatus is subsequently…
A23F 5/26
Extraction of coffee ; Coffee extracts ; Making instant coffee: extraction of water soluble constituents
A23F 5/262
Extraction of water soluble constituents: the extraction liquid flowing through a stationary bed of solid substances, e.g. in percolation columns
A47J 31/002
Apparatus for making beverages: following a specific operational sequence, e.g. for improving the taste of the extraction product

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PCT/JP2017/028624Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Aug 2017
US 2019/0038064 A1Pre-grant publication · published 7 Feb 2019
US 10,694,884 B2This patent

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